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The main dialects of Catalan[1][2][3]

The Catalan dialects feature a relative uniformity, especially when compared to other Romance languages;[4] both in terms of vocabulary, semantics, syntax, morphology, and phonology.[5] Mutual intelligibility between its dialects is very high,[6][7][8] estimates ranging from 90% to 95%.[9] The only exception is the isolated idiosyncratic Alguerese dialect.[4]

  1. ^ Feldhausen 2010, p. 6.
  2. ^ Wheeler 2005, p. 2.
  3. ^ Costa Carreras & Yates 2009, p. 4.
  4. ^ a b Moll 2006, p. 47.
  5. ^ Enciclopèdia Catalana, pp. 634–635.
  6. ^ Wheeler 2005, p. 1.
  7. ^ Costa Carreras & Yates 2009, p. 5.
  8. ^ Feldhausen 2010, p. 5.
  9. ^ Central Catalan has 90% to 95% inherent intelligibility for speakers of Valencian (1989 R. Hall, Jr.), cited on Ethnologue.

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